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R. PRIETO Y CUBILLOS. CARTRIDGE SHELL EXTRAGTOR Patented ont. 17, 1893.

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UNITED STATES 4PATENT OFFICE.

RODOLFO PRIETO Y OUBILLOs, OF BOGOTA, COLOMBIA.

CARTRIDGE-SHELL EXTRACTOR.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 506,937, dated October17, 1893. Applicationiled October 27, 1892. Serial No. 450,153. (Nomodel.)

To all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, RODOLFO PRIETO Y CUBILLOS, a citizen of the UnitedStates of Colombia, at present residing in Bogota, Colombia, SouthAmerica, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Extractors forCartridge-Shells, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

This invention has forits object the extraction of broken cartridges orrather broken cartridge shells, from rides, and it consists in acartridge shell cutting extractor, substantially as hereinafterdescribed and pointed out in the claims.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in both the figures.

Figure l represents a view in perspective of the extractor; and Fig. 2is a geometrical side view of the same with its free end portions insection.

The cartridge shell extractor which is the subject of thisinvention isnotan attachment to the fire-arm or rie but a separate article or devicefor removing a broken shell rmly lodged in the rile or its bore. It ismade preferably of U or V-shape and of very tine and highly temperedsteel and forms in eiect a loop-shaped spring. A, in the drawings,designates such an extractor which is constructed of two yieldingfingers, a, b, conjoined in their rear and flaring outward at their freeends. The one, a, of these fingers is made of -longitudinally grooved orU-shape internally at its extremity so as to present sharp cuttingpoints or edges and forms acutter c for splitting or dividing the lodgedshell, while the other and somewhat shorter finger b is internallyiiattened at its extremity c. These two fingers operate conjointly toremove the broken or lodged shell by compressing said fingers andforcing them by a ramrod applied to the conjoined ends of the lingers,down the grooves of a rifle of proper caliber having a broken or lodgedcartridge or cartridge shell within it. In this way, the device operatesas a snre'extractor of the shell, the arm or nger a, cutting the lodgedshellin two, while the shorter arm or finger b with its attened orpointed extremity entering behind the now loosened shell acts as acutter or wedge and pusher to dislodge said shell.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, is

1. A cartridge shell extractor, comprising spring fingers having theirlower ends formed into cutting edges, substantially as described.

2. A cartridge shell extractor, comprising spring fingers, one of whichis formed with two cutting edges at its lower end and the other having aflattened extremity, substantially as described. p

3. A cartridge extractor, consisting of the spring loop A having thefingers a b, the finger ct being longitudinally grooved to form twocutting edges c, andthe finger b flattened at its extremity c',substantially as herein shown and described.

RODOLFO PRIETO Y CUBILLOS.

Witnesses:

JOHN T. ABBOTT, JEEEMIAH COUGHLIN.

